[Fwd: [Milsurplus] MAW-1 reported to Nuclear Regulatory Commission!]

[Bob W7AVK]

In the early 1970s I worked in Japan on several ship building jobs.  On 
a trip over I had a Voltage Regulator [VR105, OD3, etc.] tube in my bag. 
  I had forgotten these tubes have a very small amount of radio active 
gas  to help establish an ionization and the arc within the tube.  When 
the customs official saw the radiation symbol on the tube package I was 
in trouble.  :-)

73  Bob  W7AVK




Mark Richards wrote:

> Someone left a lunch bag with a melting cool pack inside on the platform of 
> one of Boston's MBTA stations.  The station was closed down, the "hazmat" 
> team brought in, with ambulances, police, fire, and more people milling about 
> than I've ever seen.
> 
> All for a lunch bag.
> 
> Guess we better check to make sure our R-390's don't radiate.
> 
> What foolishness!
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